Afghanistan: Opium Bounces Back, Enriching Taliban and Afghan Officials

Mar 4, 2016 | Hanne Couderé, IRIN
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Poppy season is in full swing in the western province of Helmand, which last year yielded almost half of Afghanistan’s entire opium harvest, according to UNODC. Afghanistan supplies the lion’s share of the world’s opium, most of which is refined into heroin in an illegal trade that enriches government officials, the Taliban and global drug dealing networks.